Defense Contract Management Agency

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Defense Contract Management Agency Type: Independent Agencies Parent organization: U.S. Department of Defense, under the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Employees: 10637 Executive: Director Budget: Approximately $1.3 billion (fiscal year 2015) Address: 3901 A Avenue, Fort Gregg-Adams, VA 23801, USA Website: https://www.dcma.mil Creation Legislation: Defense Management Review Decision 916; DoD Directive 5105.64 Wikipedia: Defense Contract Management Agency

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Mission DCMA's mission is to ensure the integrity of the contracting process and provide a broad range of contract management services for the Department of Defense, other federal agencies, and international partners. It aims to deliver quality products and services to the warfighter on time and at the best value.

Services Contract Administration; Quality Assurance; Earned Value Management; Engineering Support; Property Management

Regulations

Defense Contract Management Agency
Overview
Formed	2000
Headquarters	Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia, United States
Employees	11,641 civilian 552 military
Annual budget	$1.4 billion
Executive	LtGen Gregory L. Masiello, Director
Website
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The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is an agency of the United States federal government reporting to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment. It is responsible for administering contracts for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other authorized federal agencies. Its headquarters is located at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia. DCMA also administers Foreign Military Sales contracts.

History

Contract administration within DoD has been studied and modified for many years. In the early 1960s, a study was commissioned by the Secretary of Defense to examine the entire DoD contracting process. Known as "Project 60," the findings pointed to numerous benefits of consolidating contract administration and audit. At that time, each defense agency and military service was administering and auditing its own contracts, which resulted in a great amount of duplicate effort. Many of the contract administration responsibilities were eventually moved to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). However, the military services continued to retain oversight of the major weapon systems acquisition programs.

Defense Contract Management Command

The contract administration process was again reviewed in 1989. Citing continued problems with the manner in which the services were administering contracts, a Defense Management Review Decision (DMRD) 916 recommended the establishment of a joint command to administer defense contracts, to ensure that consistent policies and standards were applied to the defense acquisition process. Defense Contract Management Command (DCMC) was established as a command within the Defense Logistics Agency in February 1990 to satisfy the findings of DMRD 916.

DCMC transition to DCMA

On March 27, 2000, DCMC was renamed as the Defense Contract Management Agency and established independently from DLA. In DoD Directive 5105.64, the Deputy Secretary of Defense formally established the mission, responsibilities and functions of DCMA; save for 18 specific exceptions detailed in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, DoD activities normally delegate a wide variety of contract administration functions to DCMA.

The DCMA headquarters moved from a northern Virginia location to Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia, as part of the federal 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process. The new headquarters was dedicated as Herbert Homer Hall on September 15, 2011. Homer was a DCMA employee killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

According to the DoD's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Estimate, DCMA had 10,637 civilian and 472 military personnel, located in over 740 locations, managing over 19,000 contractors and nearly 350,000 active contracts. The operations and maintenance budget estimate for fiscal year 2015 was approximately $1.3 billion. By 2019, those numbers changed slightly. As of 14 January 2019, DCMA had 11,641 civilians and 552 military assigned. Number of contractors and number of active contracts remained roughly constant. Total contracts serviced were valued at $5.2 trillion and authorized contractor payments per day was valued at $678 million.

DCMA seal, duty badge, and lapel pin

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Defense Contract Management Agency seal

The DCMA Seal is pictured above. The eagle represents courage, honor, and dedicated service to the United States, represented by the shield of thirteen pieces. The thirteen pieces of the shield represent the original thirteen colonies that became the first thirteen states. The thirteen pieces are joined together by the blue chief, representing Congress. The eagle is clutching thirteen arrows and an olive branch with thirteen leaves and thirteen olives, similar to the Great Seal of the United States. The eagle is superimposed atop a map of the world, representing DCMA's global mission. The rays emanating from the center to the thirteen stars represent glory. The color blue matches the canton of the American flag and signifies vigilance, perseverance, and justice. The circle shape and blue color are also reminiscent of the official seal of the Department of Defense.

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DCMA duty badges and lapel pin

In 2018, DCMA and the military services (the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, and US Marine Corps—as the US Space Force did not exist in 2018) approved a duty badge for military personnel to wear while assigned to DCMA. A similar lapel pin version is also available for civilian employees (and military not in uniform). The badge and lapel pin were designed by The Institute Of Heraldry (TIOH), working at the direction of military officers assigned to DCMA. Those officers directed the badge and lapel pin be reminiscent of the DCMA Seal and they wrote the heraldry of the Seal (above) as part of the badge/pin approval process. Then-Director of DCMA, United States Air Force Lieutenant General Wendy M. Masiello approved the badge and pin for DCMA. Ultimately, TIOH approved the badge and pin as an official insignia for the US military and the individual Services approved the badge for wear on military uniforms.

List of DCMA directors

No.	Director		Term			Service branch	Ref
	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Term length
1	Timothy P. Malishenko	Major General Timothy P. Malishenko	March 2000	~April 1, 2001	~1 year, 17 days	File:Military service mark of the United States Air Force.svg U.S. Air Force
2	Edward Harrington	Brigadier General Edward Harrington	~April 1, 2001	2003	~3 years, 107 days	File:Military service mark of the United States Army.svg U.S. Army
3	Darryl A. Scott	Major General Darryl A. Scott	2003	January 2006	~2 years, 214 days	File:Military service mark of the United States Air Force.svg U.S. Air Force
–	Keith Ernst	Keith Ernst Acting	January 2006	May 2008	~2 years, 121 days	File:SES Emblem.svg Senior Executive Service
4	Charlie E. Williams Jr.	Charlie E. Williams Jr.	May 2008	November 25, 2013	~5 years, 179 days	File:SES Emblem.svg Senior Executive Service
–	James M. Russell	James M. Russell Acting	November 25, 2013	June 6, 2014	193 days	File:SES Emblem.svg Senior Executive Service
5	Wendy M. Masiello	Lieutenant General Wendy M. Masiello	June 6, 2014	May 4, 2017	2 years, 332 days	File:Military service mark of the United States Air Force.svg U.S. Air Force
6	David H. Lewis	Vice Admiral David H. Lewis	May 4, 2017	June 4, 2020	3 years, 31 days	File:Emblem of the United States Navy.svg U.S. Navy
7	David G. Bassett	Lieutenant General David G. Bassett	June 4, 2020	December 20, 2023	3 years, 199 days	File:Military service mark of the United States Army.svg U.S. Army
8	Gregory L. Masiello	Lieutenant General Gregory L. Masiello	December 20, 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 33 days	U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Marine Corps

External links

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